Oliver (Julio Perillán), a young film director who lives in LA, Oliver, a film director, discovers on an erotic website that the protagonist of one of the videos is his younger half-sister, his charming little stepsister Aurora (Ivana Baquero). In the process of finding out what she was doing there, Oliver will become fascinated by Aurora. She is a lively student living with her mother (Elisabet Gelabert) and pleased by the attention from her attractive, much older brother. Surprised and confused, he decides to travel to Madrid, where she lives and looks her up for the first time in years. He will become besotted by her in the process of finding out what she was doing there and involving into an intoxicating love. During the obsessive search for answers, an intimate journey towards embarrassment, voyeurism and the truth of the image, a history of domination and manipulation, on the limits of morality and the loss of vital and audiovisual innocence.
A sophisticated and subjugating (at times) film, which shows that cinema is very much an act of voyeurism. A story of domination and manipulation with full of ruggedness , about the limits of morality and the loss of vital and audiovisual innocence. It displays an uneven rhythm with its ups and downs , dealing with the transgression of taboos. A film as peculiar as its perversity and at times it is coherent as well as suggestive, but the results are mediocre and incomprehensible, not knowing very well why the main starring act in such a strange way. Here the protagonists undertake an obsessive search for answers, an intimate journey towards the confusion and truth of the image which shows that cinema is very much an act of voyeurism, but the film loses a certain force when it becomes enclosed in a subplot . Actors give acceptable interpretations, Julio Periñan as the filmmaker who discovers on an erotic website that the protagonist of one of the explicit videos is his younger half-sister Oliver, a young director based in Los Angeles, discovers some erotic videos of his stepfather nicely played by Ivana Baquero providing her first scabrous role. The latter is the famous starring of "Pan's Labyrinth" (the youngest Spanish actress to win a Goya Award at only 12 years old for her performance for this film) , she was chosen among 1,000 girls for the role of Ofelia, the little girl has grown a lot and become a pretty young woman, developing an important international career, in fact along with costar Kevin Costner, shot "The New Daughter" for 3 months in Charleston, South Carolina (Charleston), and stars "The Shannara Chronicles" as well as ¨Another Me¨, ¨The Misfits Club¨, ¨The Anarchist's Wife ¨ , ¨Feedback¨,¨Black Friday¨. She ranked #40 on the Movie-Fanatic.com Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses and she was on the list of the 50 most beautiful published by the magazine "People en Español". In Demonios tus ojos (2017) features Ivana Baquero's first nude scene. And while she is fully dedicated to her acting career, she is also undertaking Law studies.
This is the third feature film by Spanish director Pedro Aguilar (¨La Influencia¨, ¨Naufragio¨), one of the most prominent filmmakers on the national scene proving in Demonios tus ojos who's an acceptable filmmaker although he needs a little more experience in order to shoot notable flicks . Rating: 5/10.
A sophisticated and subjugating (at times) film, which shows that cinema is very much an act of voyeurism. A story of domination and manipulation with full of ruggedness , about the limits of morality and the loss of vital and audiovisual innocence. It displays an uneven rhythm with its ups and downs , dealing with the transgression of taboos. A film as peculiar as its perversity and at times it is coherent as well as suggestive, but the results are mediocre and incomprehensible, not knowing very well why the main starring act in such a strange way. Here the protagonists undertake an obsessive search for answers, an intimate journey towards the confusion and truth of the image which shows that cinema is very much an act of voyeurism, but the film loses a certain force when it becomes enclosed in a subplot . Actors give acceptable interpretations, Julio Periñan as the filmmaker who discovers on an erotic website that the protagonist of one of the explicit videos is his younger half-sister Oliver, a young director based in Los Angeles, discovers some erotic videos of his stepfather nicely played by Ivana Baquero providing her first scabrous role. The latter is the famous starring of "Pan's Labyrinth" (the youngest Spanish actress to win a Goya Award at only 12 years old for her performance for this film) , she was chosen among 1,000 girls for the role of Ofelia, the little girl has grown a lot and become a pretty young woman, developing an important international career, in fact along with costar Kevin Costner, shot "The New Daughter" for 3 months in Charleston, South Carolina (Charleston), and stars "The Shannara Chronicles" as well as ¨Another Me¨, ¨The Misfits Club¨, ¨The Anarchist's Wife ¨ , ¨Feedback¨,¨Black Friday¨. She ranked #40 on the Movie-Fanatic.com Top 50 Hottest Young Actresses and she was on the list of the 50 most beautiful published by the magazine "People en Español". In Demonios tus ojos (2017) features Ivana Baquero's first nude scene. And while she is fully dedicated to her acting career, she is also undertaking Law studies.
This is the third feature film by Spanish director Pedro Aguilar (¨La Influencia¨, ¨Naufragio¨), one of the most prominent filmmakers on the national scene proving in Demonios tus ojos who's an acceptable filmmaker although he needs a little more experience in order to shoot notable flicks . Rating: 5/10.